“Dilbert” To “Smoking Hot” Black Blogger: Don’t Criticize Gwyneth

After Gwyneth Paltrow who is the child of a famous actress and a film producer as well as the godchild of Steven Spielberg, said that everything she has accomplished is because of her work ethic and not her privilege, African American blogger, Keli Goff, criticized her in a Huffington Post Blog, saying:

In an age in which America’s class-divide is greater than it’s ever been, our patience has simply waned for the George W. Bushes and Gwyneth Paltrows of the world — people who were born on third base and act like they hit a triple. America was founded on the idea that everyone has equal opportunity to carve out their piece of the American Dream, but increasingly that’s becoming less and less of a reality. And there’s something infuriating about listening to people born into the Dream — silver rattle in one hand, silver spoon in the other — lecture the rest of us on how easy it is to obtain — if we’re just willing to “work our asses off” like they do.

Dilbert Creator, Scott Adams took to his own blog to counter Goff’s criticism of Paltrow, saying that a “smoking hot African American woman” had no right to criticize Paltrow.

It’s worth noting, in the interest of context, that Goff was born with a few advantages herself. She’s beautiful, smart, and apparently had the resources she needed to make it through NYU and go on to get her Master’s Degree at Columbia University. If you ask Goff what made her successful, would she credit her hard work and leave out her other obvious advantages? Or would she answer honestly and say, “I worked hard for what I’ve achieved, but it didn’t hurt that I’m a brilliant, smoking-hot African-American woman in 2011.” I’m just saying that people don’t generally talk about their advantages. To do so would be…wait for it…gloating.